The big question of what powers your body and give you life has been pondered for many years, and is now coming up for a closer discussion. We have seen films like Matrix, Avatar where film-makers have speculated about reality and communication. We see increasing interest in holistic medicine, up to now considered mystic.
Modern science is based on mathematics, physics and chemistry. Quantum mechanics find that energy is present, can change and be stimulated in atoms and molecular structures. Our bodies are made of such structures, so energy must be present there too. This is low level energy – subtle energy.
People have speculated that the energy in matter can be harnessed as an energy source that is unlimited. Harnessing subtle or mental energies for physical power has also been discussed. The form of this energy has been speculated to be in the form of corpuscles that we can see.
Consciousness is another matter – how do we feel and think, how do emotions rise and fall and what gives rise to our mind?
The body has a metabolism – it is a complex chemical process that we do not fully understand. How we feed the body – the intake of nutrition and chemicals is not fully understood, the role of exercise to keep the body running smoothly is better understood.
Eastern medicine and Western medicine are different, but Eastern medicine has a view of the body as a balanced system – keep the system balanced and risk of illness is low. This view is not only chemical, but includes the mental processes as well.
We can speculate that the body can be an energy system that uses vibrational energy, is bioelectronic, shows magnetic fields.
The vibrational and holistic understanding of energy patterns is most likely part of the understanding that is emerging.
A study of the energies within the human body can not be called mysticism: surely we can find ways to measure it and deal with it? Modern classical scientists are sceptical of this, but there are many unsolved puzzles of body and mind – maybe the subtle energy models can lead us nearer to what is true?
Lots of writers and researchers are looking into this matter now: Davidson, Chopra, Becker a.o. More will follow on this subject.| “A human being is part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical illusion of consciousness… Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.”
-Albert Einstein
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